The Feral Irishman

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

This story has been floating around for a few days, now, but I don't see much coverage of it. According to The Sovereign Man blog by Simon Black,
the DOJ has instituted cash controls that require banks to notify them
if anyone withdraws as little as $5000 cash in one transaction.

Assistant attorney general Leslie Caldwell gave a speech
in which he urged banks to “alert law enforcement authorities about the
problem” so that police can “seize the funds” or at least “initiate an
investigation”.
As Black highlights, according to the handbook for
the Federal Financial Institution Examination Council, such suspicious
activity includes, “Transactions conducted or attempted by, at, or
through the bank (or an affiliate) and aggregating $5,000 or more…”
Imagine going to your local bank to get some cash; for a specific
purchase or just because you want to have some cash on hand. You tell
the teller that you’d like to withdraw $5,000 from your account. She
hesitates nervously and wants to know why.
You try to politely let her know that that’s none of the bank’s business as it’s your money.
The teller disappears for a few minutes, leaving you waiting.
When she returns she tells you that you can collect your money in a few days as they don’t have it on hand at the moment.
Slightly irritated because of the inconvenience, you head home.
But as you pull into your driveway later there’s an unexpected surprise
waiting for you: two police officers would like to have a word with you
about your intended withdrawal earlier…

How do you know you live in a police state? That's a pretty good working definition right there.

After weeks
of China’s highly-visible drills from the newly-constructed
and christened military airfields, each time stopping just short of
intruding into Japanese airspace / seaspace around the Senkaku
Islands (small islands currently in Japanese hands) while ramping up
diplomatic pressure for a “negotiated compromise” and using their military
drills as an intimidation tactic, China’s military units do not stop. Having lulled Japan and America into
complacency with a “Boy who cried wolf!” tactic, cruise missiles sped from disguised
Chinese ships that had, only in retrospect examination, encircled the islands. Non-nuclear EMP weapons,
developed and tested surreptitiously over isolated locations in western China, were
quickly followed by airstrikes which crippled the Japanese military units there. Similarly, Japanese military bases in
Japan-proper were similarly hit with a one-two EMP/airstrike punch sequence to
hinder any counterattack.

These
missiles and air assaults were swiftly followed by a mass airborne troop
assault to the islands coupled with follow-on amphibious landings. Daring special-forces operations quickly
overwhelmed the confused resistance in critical sites like airfields, which
were quickly put to use receiving reinforcements of men and materials to defend
the captured islands.

From there,
it almost doesn’t matter which choice is made.
The world, with piles of interconnected tinder scattered everywhere,
stands on a knife edge, with one pile already burning.

If the US
does uphold its treaty obligations, it will become enmeshed in a long-distance,
mostly naval war against an enemy that has doubtless planned for such
contingencies as a part of its overall planning. China’s new weapons, such as its hypersonic
missiles and ballistic
carrier destroyers, may well be discovered through catastrophic losses to
be farther along than thought with their maturity masked by deceptive tests and
misinformation. Backdoors in US
military electronics, made in China, could be exploited to shut down the
sophisticated capabilities of advanced US systems even with prior
efforts to root them out.

More deadly,
though, the Chinese
penetration of utilities like America’s electric grid may be found to be
far more pervasive than thought, and the American electrical grid might be
brought down through a concentrated wave of cyber attacks. The resulting domestic chaos would result in
a US government having to divide its attention between the war and the
widespread domestic unrest.

If the US
does not uphold its mutual-aid obligations, every ally – whether in Europe and
NATO, in the Middle East like Israel, and across Asia – will have explicit
confirmation that America does not have their back despite signed and ratified
treaties. More importantly, potential
aggressor nations like Russia, Iran, and North Korea will see America and its
deterrent on their actions slinking from the field – and act accordingly.

Russia would
doubtless step up its penetration into Ukraine, or possible consolidate its
gains there and go for the Scandinavian countries, or the Baltic nations, or
press into Kazakhstan to capture Baikonur, their
spaceport, a strategic asset. Putin
would have multiple options, and doubtless has made contingency plans for all
of them. Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi
Arabia, already close to direct blows over Yemen with Saudi Arabia’s assault on
the Iranian-backed rebels here, and not only having the doctrinal split also
have the long-standing mutual hatred between the Arabs and Persians, get into
it directly. ISIS would doubtless
capitalize on the situation, and Israel would likely get dragged in as well. Greece and Turkey, both laying claim to
Cyprus, indulge in their mutual hatred.

North Korea,
not famous for stable and benevolent leaders, might launch an attack on South
Korea as China – both its patron and restraint – is distracted. India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers with
a decades-long simmering anger at each other, could pull the trigger. Muslim colonist populations in Western
Europe, approaching critical mass in multiple countries, could erupt and plunge
normal allies like England, France, Italy, Spain, and others into domestic
chaos – and thus unable to render any assistance anywhere else.

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It doesn’t
matter if it’s China that first lights the match. It could be Putin attacking a Baltic state,
as envisioned in this
cynical piece, triggering a choice to honor NATO obligations, or not. It could be Iran attacking Israel, having
made more progress on its nuclear program than thought, or they could attack
America directly through an EMP missile launched from a ship, outlined in three
videos here, here, and discussed at
length here,
collapsing America as a world power and thus unleashing aggressors everywhere. Putin especially, having
practiced nuclear attack runs on America, might do it for real seeing the
collapse of America from multiple possible causes.

Once lit, the
flame will spread. And the world will
burn.

We stand upon
a precipice. The collapse of American
military power under Imperius Barackus Rex, and the weakening of American
resolve and belief in our – and by extension Western Civilization’s – inherent
superiority by a relentless and decades-long assault by the Left, have
emboldened our enemies.

Conservatives
MUST UNITE to take back the White House in 2016. We must retain the House. We must strengthen our hold on the Senate to
a filibuster-proof majority. And we must
make strengthening our military, and rebuilding our allies and alliances, an
absolute top priority.

While we may
disagree on abortion, drug policy, immigration, and other things that are
worthy of discussion and debate, to allow the Left to keep the White House
guarantees that America’s retreat from being the central, Pax Americana stabilizer in the world, will result in emboldened
enemies. And we need to pray to whatever
deity we love that the world doesn’t ignite before then. Because if it does, we’re smoked meat. Literally.
Next to that one concern, the others fall away as mere trifles to be
discussed another day.

Vladimir Putin scheduled the war to retake the Baltic States –
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – for the first half of the last Final
Four college basketball game. He anticipated, correctly, that the
President’s focus would be on his brackets instead of Russia’s plan to
recapture its former glory.The signs were all there – prior aggression in Georgia, the invasion
of Ukraine, the unscheduled “maneuvers” in both Russia and Belarus
adjacent to the panicking Baltic States’ borders, the provocative
military flights into their airspace and that of nearby Sweden. And the
administration, fixated on pushing through its domestic agenda and a
legacy-building nuclear deal with Iran at all costs, ignored them. A week before, the Secretary of State had said in an interview that,
“Russia has a legitimate interest in Eastern Europe that we in the West
are bound to respect.” Putin had taken that as tacit validation of a
Russian sphere of influence over its former subject states.

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